Channing Tatum’s getting back to his scantily-clad roots for his next film role.
Art will imitate life when art will the Step Up star teams up with director Steven Soderbergh to play a male stripper in the comedy/drama Magic Mike. The story chronicles the experiences of an exotic dancer mentoring a younger male stripper on how to work the scene. The film will follow them on their wild summer journey of friendship, Deadline.com dished this week. Soderbergh is using the ’70s classic Saturday Night Fever as a “model” for Magic Mike, which will likely bring back some familiar memories for its star.
Before Tatum found Hollywood success with blockbusters like G.I. Joe, the future star supported himself as a stripper and model in Florida. He was just 19 at the time.
“I was a stripper,” Channing admitted to audience applause on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in Feb. 2010. “Look, I’m not proud of it, but I’m not ashamed of it,” he added good-naturedly.
Channing Tatum has jumped to the top of the list of actors being courted for a role in Jonah Hill’s upcoming motion picture adaptation of 21 Jump Street, the ’80s cop drama that featured Johnny Depp and Holly Robinson Peete (Ugh) as babyfaced rookie officers battling some of the most pivotal social issues plaguing Gen Xers.
Snake hips! Actress/dancer Jenna Dewan is the latest star to strip off in the name of animal rights. The bride of Hollywood hunk Channing Tatum has posed naked in nothing but python bodypaint for a new anti-animal cruelty campaign from controversial fur-hating charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Jenna — who found fame alongside her now-husband in the 2006 dance flick Step Up — is calling attention to the exotic skins industry, a sector of the Fashion World in which thousands of snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and other reptiles are killed annually for their skins, which are then turned into accessories.
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum will play a married couple in the new romantic drama, The Vow.
Based on the real-life saga of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, the project was originally developed as a starring vehicle for Julia Roberts. It centers on the story of the newlywed couple, who were involved in a car accident that leaves Kim in a coma. When she wakes up, she has no memory of her new husband, which leaves him striving to make her fall in love with him again.
Grey Gardens director Michael Sucsy will helm the project.
